• Reminder: Some of this week’s readings are hosted on MSU Google Drive. These are only accessible using your MSU Google Apps account. When you open the link, you’ll be prompted to select which google account you want to open them with – use your MSU Google Apps account (which requires your regular MSU Net ID and password). If you choose your non-MSU google account, you won’t be able to open the file. Do not request access to the files with your non-MSU Google account.

COURSE MATERIALS

• Lecture: 5.1. General Concepts in Paleoanthropology (17 min)
• Lecture: 5.2. Early Hominins (31 min)
• Lecture: 5.3. Late Pliocene Hominin Diversity (14 min)
• Link: 5.1. Peppe – Dating Rocks and Fossils Using Geologic Methods
• PDF: 5.1. Ackerman – The Downside of Upright
• Video: 5.1. Survivors of Changing Environment (3 min)
• Video: 5.2. “Analysis of Ardipithecus ramidus” (10 min)
• Video: 5.3. “The Discovery of Australopithecus sediba” (12 min)

ASSESSMENTS

• 10-Question MC quiz on D2L (complete by 11:30PM on Friday) – 60 minute time limit once you start the quiz
• Reflection Blog Post (due on Friday by 11:30PM): (500 words)
  • Prompt: Review and describe 2-3 hominin traits that can inform us about modern human biology. Consider the ways in which hominin diversity has affected human evolution in your answer. Include in your response a statement on how fossilized skeletal remains of early human ancestors can help anthropologists reconstruct and learn from the past.
• Reflection Blog Comments (due on Sunday by 11:30PM): (125 words each) Read 2 other students’ postings from this week’s reflection posts and leave a comment.